Common sense is unhealthy for dreams.

aphorism by Kazimierz Matan
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Edgar [Aside]: And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'

classic lines from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

quote by Janet Street-Porter
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Worst Comes to Worst

(Babu mixing)
"Worst come to worst my peoples come first"
"Worst...come.....to worst"
"Worst come to worst my peoples come first"
"Worst come...to...worst"
"Worst come to worst my peoples come first"

(Evidence talking)
Yeah
It's goin down y'all
That's Babu

Yo

song performed by Dilated Peoples from Expansion Team
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.

quote by John Fletcher
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

Yiddish proverbs
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

quote by Marilyn Ferguson
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Cure the illness that is not yet an illness.

Tibetan proverbs
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Natural Theology

Primitive

I ate my fill of a whale that died
And stranded after a month at sea. . . .
There is a pain in my inside.
Why have the Gods afflicted me?
Ow! I am purged till I am a wraith!
Wow! I am sick till I cannot see!
What is the sense of Religion and Faith:
Look how the Gods have afflicted me!

Pagan

How can the skin of rat or mouse hold
Anything more than a harmless flea?. . .
The burning plague has taken my household.
Why have my Gods afflicted me?
All my kith and kin are deceased,
Though they were as good as good could be,

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poem by Rudyard Kipling
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Original - Time, My Worst Enemy

Time, My Worst Enemy
Keeping me away from you
Time, My Worst Enemy
Moving slowly when we’re apart

Time, My Worst Enemy
Fleeting when you are near
Time, My Worst Enemy
Battling with it daily

Time, My Worst Enemy
Stealing moments from the clock
Time, My Worst Enemy
Until you are in my arms again

Time, My Worst Enemy
Rapidly chasing us down
Time, My Worst Enemy
He will not take you this time

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poem by Don Haney
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I'll Be There

Shane:
Ooh yeah
You and I must make a pact
We must bring salvation back
Where there is love
Ill be there
(Ill be there)
Ill reach out my hand to you
Ill have faith, you know you do
Just call my name
And Ill be there
(Ill be there)
Mark:
Woh oh yeah
All:
Ill be there to comfort you
Ill build my world of dreams around you
Im so glad that Ive found you
Ill be there with love thats strong
Ill be your strength

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song performed by Westlife
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Edgar [Aside.]: And worse I may be yet; the worst is not
So long as I can say ‘This is the worst.’

classic line from the play King Lear, Act IV, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

quote by J.M. Barrie
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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

quote by Hannah Green
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

quote by James M. Barrie
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The Worst And The Best

in the hospitals and jails
it's the worst
in madhouses
it's the worst
in penthouses
it's the worst
in skid row flophouses
it's the worst
at poetry readings
at rock concerts
at benefits for the disabled
it's the worst
at funerals
at weddings
it's the worst
at parades
at skating rinks
at sexual orgies
it's the worst
at midnight

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poem by Charles Bukowski
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But love's a malady without a cure.

quote by John Dryden
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We Let the Illness In

At first, we both make contact
With mucus membranes,
And we let the illness in.

The fevers we may contract
Fester in our brains,
And we let the illness in.

We won't know how to react
While writhing in pain,
And we let the illness in.

Yet, such is the fate we pick,
Choosing to be sick,
And we let the illness in.

poem by Tim Stensloff
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The best doctor prevents illness, an average doctor visits when the illness is imminent, and the unskilled doctor treats your present illness.

Chinese proverbs
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Where Is She?

Where is she, I wondered, when she wasn't there.
If she's not here she could be anywhere. She could be
anywhere and not alone.
I began to imagine the worst. At every imagining
I thought I had imagined the worst, then I imagined
something even worse. It got to the point where my
imaginings no longer included her. I realized that the
worst did not encompass her. As my imaginings continued,
as worst superseded worst, making the preceding worst
only worse, I began to forget her. As worst got worse,
I forgot her more. Things were getting pretty bad, and
I had almost forgotten her completely, when she
reappeared.

poem by Peter Cherches
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